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5 tools that let you slash your Enterprise SaaS license costs
In today’s digital workplace, many businesses rely on Line-of-Business (LOB) applications or B2B SaaS platforms like Workday, Zendesk, and ServiceNow for their operations. While these tools are essential, their per-user licensing costs can become a significant burden, especially as teams grow. However, by integrating these tools with automation platforms like Zapier or Power Automate, companies can extend the visibility and functionality of their software without needing to buy a license for every individual user. For instance, a popular use case for Zapier is to automate customer support tickets between Zendesk and Slack, enabling the whole team to monitor ticket statuses…
Enhancing front-line worker experience in your intranet with Viva Connections
In today’s dynamic business environment, front-line workers (FLWs) — such as retail associates, warehouse workers, and service staff — are often the backbone of customer interactions and operational efficiency. Yet, they are frequently underserved by traditional digital tools and intranets, which are often designed with office-based roles in mind. Enhancing the experience of these workers through a modern, role-based intranet is not just a matter of convenience; it’s a strategic priority that can drive productivity, engagement, and satisfaction across your organization. Why improving front-line worker experience matters Front-line workers play a crucial role in representing the brand and ensuring smooth…
Introducing the Copilot in M365 CoE Dashboard: A hub for driving Copilot adoption
At adenin, we are excited to unveil our latest offering, the Copilot in M365 Dashboard, a powerful, free tool designed to enhance your Microsoft 365 experience with Viva Connections Adaptive Cards. This tool is an invaluable resource for organizations aiming to establish a Copilot Center of Excellence (CoE) and maximize their ROI. Key Features Why Choose adenin’s Copilot in M365 Dashboard? Get Started Explore the Copilot in M365 Dashboard on GitHub to get started with this powerful tool. Enhance your Microsoft 365 experience today and lead your organization’s journey towards a robust Copilot Center of Excellence. Installing this dashboard in…
The best replacement for Office 365 connectors within Teams
Update: This seems to be now delayed until December, which gives you slightly more time to test the replacement. Without much fanfare, but to the dismay of power users, Microsoft announced they’re shuttering Connectors for Microsoft Teams. The feature was a close relative of SharePoint’s Connector web part, which, too, will be discontinued. This feature was a circa-2016 precursor to Power Automate and allowed users to create a web part or Teams channel message based on new events in a handful of connectors that were available from Microsoft. The selection of connectors was sizable in Teams, but much smaller in…
Showcasing our Viva Connections offering
This week we’ve been invited by the SharePoint team to talk to Vesa Jovonen to talk about our Viva Connections offering and what we bring to a modern Digital Workplace built on Microsoft365. It was great to be able to showcase our various apps available on Microsoft AppSource, such as Jira, Zendesk or Workday. We were able to show how our apps work within Viva Connections dashboard as well as SharePoint, and how they can be invoked in Microsoft Teams with our companion Teams app. Head over to the Viva Connections blog post to get the full story.
Embed RSS news feed web part into SharePoint or Viva Connections (Updated 2025)
Despite first being released in 1999 (yeah, a quarter of a century ago) RSS feeds are still a go-to format to syndicate news from different sources. This makes it also an ideal tool to show local news, weather, traffic updates, and more to users of your intranet. SharePoint used to offer a built-in RSS reader web part, but it was broken for many years until it was removed in 2024 alongside other SharePoint Connectors. From the SharePoint store: RSS feeds web part Luckily there is an easy replacement available directly on Microsoft AppSource: RSS feed web part for SharePoint. It’s…
Top 4 SharePoint Dashboard Apps
Dashboards have traditionally been a staple for real-time data visualizations, of interest mostly to business intelligence users, data analysts or perhaps marketers.
10 best SharePoint integrations [Updated 2024]
Having always been a popular Intranet platform, in recent years SharePoint has become ubiquitous. In part thanks to Viva Connections, a new set of features that improve employee engagement. Through Microsoft App Source, organizations find apps and extensions that suit their particular needs, for example to include data from outside sources like IT tickets, holiday allowances, lunch menus, etc. This helps make SharePoint into a hub for all external data so users have to spend less time hunting for tabs, and can monitor things more conveniently and centrally. In this blog post we have summarized the 10 most popular business…
The 6 best apps for Viva Connections
Viva Connections’ dashboard is a fresh, new take on an intranet dashboard. Available both on SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, in a recent overhaul the dashboard has become even more central on the Viva homepage. This area is therefore coming into the focus of many admins and comms teams who discover that you can not just make your own Cards, you can also get Cards that let you connect to other work tools. This promises to improve the usability of your new intranet homepage, so in this post we’ll look at the 6 best apps for Viva Connections for improving your…
Will ChatGPT enhance SharePoint intranets?
Doing your kids’ history homework, writing marketing plans and killing off Google – ChatGPT seems to single-handedly do it all. And it came almost out of nowhere. In this article we’ll inspect whether Microsoft, having recently increased its share in OpenAI, could enhance SharePoint or Viva Connections with it. We’re starting off with SharePoint’s search as the existing product, before considering if a chatbot might come to SharePoint. Search Search engine optimizers have long observed that most Google searches do not result in a click anymore. That’s due to Google’s featured snippets, that present passages of crawled text directly on…